Sonic Saturday
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Listen: Baramasa compositions that describe the imagery of the seasons
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Listen: Renditions of dhamaar by Faiyaz Khan and other maestros
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Listen: Begum Akhtar and Shobha Gurtu perform Holi songs
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Listen: As the festival of colours approaches, here is how tabla is used to accompany the holi form
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Listen: How the tabla is used to accompany the chaiti folk form
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Listen: Dadra compositions set to Kaherva taal
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Listen: Dadra compositions set to the dadra taal
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Listen: Bol banaav thumris sung in the eight-matra Kaherva
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Listen: Two tracks featuring bol banaav thumris set to Jat taal
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Listen: How the 14-matra Deepchandi taal is used for bol banaav thumris
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Listen: The tabla ‘laggi’ section of thumri-dadra renditions
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Listen: The taals used by tabla players to accompany thumri
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Listen: How different tabla players colour the rhythmic canvas their own way playing the same taal
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Listen: Begum Akhtar and the bonhomie and respect enjoyed by her accompanists
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Listen: How tabla players are able to enter into unrehearsed dialogue with featured soloists
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Listen: Tabla players are much more than time-keepers – they are accompanists
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Listen: Why a hammer is an essential part of a tabla player’s toolkit
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Listen: Pannalal Ghosh, Ahmed Jan Thirakwa and others at a reimagined Munir Khan tribute concert
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Listen: Is PR activity in Hindustani music really a new phenomenon?
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Listen: Recreating a concert that commemorated tabla player Munir Khan on his 75th birth anniversary
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Listen: Recreating the Faiyaz Khan barsi concert of 1957
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Listen: Remembering the Faiyaz Khan barsi concert from 1957
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Listen: Hariharan and Kavita Krishnamurthy sing film tunes composed by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain
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Listen: Sitar player Bhaskar Chandavarkar discusses the impact of the keyboard on Indian music
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When vocalist Vilayat Hussain Khan joined a protest against AIR’s disrespectful audition policies
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Listen: Recalling the Hindi film legacy of classical musicians Husnlal and Bhagatram
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Listen: The film songs of pioneering composer Jhande Khan
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Listen: Film songs by Feroze Nizami sung by Noor Jehan and others
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Listen: Suraiyaa, KL Saigal and others sing the film music of Khurshid Anwar
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Listen: The songs of Saraswati Devi, India’s first woman music director
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Listen: The film music of Rafiq Ghaznavi
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Listen: Tabla player Ghulam Mohammed’s music for ‘Pakeezah’ and other films
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Listen: The film compositions of sitar player Muhammad Shafi sung by Lata Mangeshkar and others
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Listen: Asha Bhosale and Anuradha Paudwal sing film songs by flute maestro Raghunath Seth
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Listen: The film music of Timir Baran sung by Pankaj Mullick and others
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Listen: Songs from the film ‘Nagad Narayan’ composed by Hindustani violinist Shridhar Parsekar
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Listen: Sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan’s film songs for ‘Aandhiyaan’
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Listen: The film songs of bansuri maestro Pannalal Ghosh
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Listen: Seven film songs composed by tabla maestro Alla Rakha
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Listen: The film songs of Hindustani music educator Shankarrao Vyas
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Listen: Seven film songs composed by sitar maestro Ravi Shankar
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Listen: As India celebrates Ganeshotsav, two taals associated with the elephant-headed deity
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Listen: An imagined recreation of a Mumbai jalsa with ‘God Save the Queen’ sung in Gujarati in 1887
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Listen: Strolling past the chowk in Mumbai named after sitar maestro Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
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Listen: Visiting the chowk in Mumbai’s Goregaon named after violinist DK Datar
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Listen: The versatility of Saraswati Rane, who gives her name to a Pune chowk
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Listen: The music of Hariprasad Chaurasia and the story of the Vrindaban Gurukul he set up
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Listen: The vocals of CR Vyas, who lends his name to a Chembur street
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Listen: The many musical talents of Ghulam Mustafa Khan, after whom a Bandra junction is named
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Listen: The rhythms of Chatur Lal, a gifted tabla player after whom a Delhi street is named
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Listen: Music and memories from the storied halls of the NCPA, which graces a corner of South Mumbai
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Listen: The music of pathbreaking bansuri player Pannalal Ghosh, after whom a Malad street is named
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Listen: At Pune’s Chhota Gandharva Chowk, memories of a notable actor-singer for Marathi productions
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Listen: How Gangubai Hangal’s voice changed dramatically after she had throat surgery
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Listen: How vocalist Jitendra Abhisheki drew influences from diverse sources to forge a unique style
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Listen: Should Bhimsen Joshi be considered a pathbreaking artist?
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Listen: A raag by bansuri player Malharrao Kulkarni, who lent his name to a Borivali street
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Listen: A dhrupad composed by Tansen, long considered a touchstone of musical ‘authenticity’
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Listen: Recordings by Ram Marathe, who is commemorated in a park and street in Thane
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Listen: Recordings by tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh, founder of the Sangit Mahabharati music school
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Listen: Khayal and thumris by Manik Varma, who is memorialised in a garden in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park
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Listen: Raags by music educationist BR Deodhar, who lent his name to a prominent Mumbai junction
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Listen: Tracks by vocalist Azmat Hussain Khan, whose memory lives on in a street in South Mumbai
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Listen: A chaturang composed by VD Paluskar, who is commemorated by a prominent Mumbai bus stop
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Listen: The music of ‘Pandit Gunidas’, after whom a street is named in Mumbai’s Mahim area
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Listen: When Tarabai Shirodkar and other musicians performed at World War I relief fund events
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When Gauhar Jan sang at a benefit for firebrand anti-colonial journalist BG Horniman
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Listen: When Gauhar Jan sang in Mumbai – but the concert organiser failed to get police permission
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India has long obsessed about preserving dying traditions – but this could mean stifling creativity
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Listen: How the harmonium influenced the way Hindustani musicians chose their tonic note
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Listen: When musicians turn their bodies into percussion instruments
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Listen: Siddheshwari Devi sings a thumri based on raag Khamaj
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Listen: Three maestros whose work will be the focus of ‘Interpretation Centres’ in Varanasi
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Listen: When Amir Khan sings raag Marwa, time slows down
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Listen: DV Paluskar and Ramkrishnbuwa Vaze explore the same vilambit composition in Mia ki Malhar
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Listen: Indore gharana maestro Amir Khan’s explorations of time in raag Lalit
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Who actually started Mumbai’s famous Swami Haridas music festival?
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Why have music festivals stopped featuring discussions about music-making?
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Do some Hindustani music festivals go overboard in their attempts to draw in the crowds?
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Do festivals really benefit the Hindustani music scene? After decades of debate, opinion is divided
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Listen: Jasraj and Ali Akbar Khan in a reimagined session at the Haridas Sammelan, 1962
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Listen: Reimagining the performances at the 1962 Haridas Sammelan
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Listen: Kumar Gandharva and other maestros at Mumbai’s Swami Haridas Sammelan in 1962
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Re-created concerts: Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan at Mumbai’s Swami Haridas Sammelan in 1962
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Listen: Omkarnath Thakur sings raag Darbari Kanada as we revisit the 1962 Swami Haridas Sammelan
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Listen: An imagined recreation of a women’s music conference in Calcutta in 1954
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Listen: Sitarist Imrat Khan and other greats in a recreation of a concert in Kolkata from 1955
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Listen: Kesarbai Kerkar and other maestros in a recreation of a Calcutta concert from 1954
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Listen: A reimagining of the 1954 edition of Kolkata’s Dover Lane Music Conference
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Listen: Given how diverse audiences can be, how do performers meet their expectations?
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Listen: A Khadim Hussain Khan recording echoes the time musicians sat down to listen to their peers
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How should musicians react when politicians interrupt their concerts?
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Tracks by Begum Akhtar, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan show how audiences respond to great performances
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Listen: Vidyadhar Vyas and other muscians explain Hindustani music on the Sangeet Sarita radio show
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Listen: What is the association between Hindustani music and film music based on raags?
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Listen: An introduction to the poetry of the ashtapadi form
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Listen: Begum Akhtar and other greats sing compositions in Braj bhasha
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Listen: Vasantrao Deshpande and Veena Sahasrabuddhe sing khayals that use Urdu
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Listen: This track by Omkarnath Thakur shows that his guru VD Paluskar did not sanitise song texts
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Listen: Patiala gharana maestro Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sings a bandish in Punjabi